Merrimack County, New Hampshire

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,969	13,115	414	34,215	1,827	83,685
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	-590	-15.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+36	36.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+11,743	52.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+119	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+488	260.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+194	81.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-37	-24.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+138	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-38	-4.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+121	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-2	-241	-9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+57	22.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+106	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+378	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+325	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+272	108.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	+65	19.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+274	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-5.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-10	-16.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+201	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+107	24.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-403	-9.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-184	-8.0%
	Totals:	9	+13,112	+33.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 98,302; in 2000 it was 136,225. The total population changed 13.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (39,070) represent 39.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (52,540) include 38.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 24 groups had 38,851 adherents in 1980 and 51,963 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.7%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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